Algerian boxer Imane Kherif has been named the most searched athlete on Google in 2024 following the gender controversy that put the boxer at the top of the news during the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Google has released “Year of Search” This week's results show that Kerif is sitting at the top of the athlete chart. FOX News reported that the boxer's name was searched more than athletes such as Simone Biles, Jake Paul and Mike Tyson.
The boxer quickly caused controversy after being allowed to compete as a woman at this year's International Olympic Games in Paris. prohibited In 2023, he received a warning from the International Boxing Association (IBA) after a man tested positive for XY chromosomes.
According to Russia's Tass news agency, IBA President Umar Kremlev has announced that Taiwan's Lin Yuting and Algeria's Imane Kherif will be disqualified from competing in the IBA's 2023 Women's World Boxing Championship. explained the decision. “Based on DNA tests, we have identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into pretending to be women. Upon testing, it turned out that they had XY chromosomes. Such athletes He was removed from the competition,” Kremlev said. said.
But after Kerif's first Olympic match against Italian boxer Angela Carini, the world protested that Kerif was allowed to fight as a woman in Paris.
In fact, after losing his Olympic match in just 46 seconds, Carini told reporters that he had never been hit so hard in his boxing career.
It was later revealed that Olympic boxing trainer Rafa Lozano had prohibited Kerif from boxing with women in training because he deemed them too dangerous to compete in the ring.
After the Olympics, another report came out that Kerif was more male than female, and that inside she was male rather than female. The report added that Kerif has internal testes, a “micropenis” and XY chromosomes.
Kherif's biological condition, reportedly compiled by the Kremlin-Bicêtre Hospital in Paris, France, and the Mohamed Ramin Debagin Hospital in Algiers, Algeria, suggests that Kherif is a man and should be barred from entering women's stadiums. It became clear that the IBA's ruling that there was a case may have been correct. boxing.
The report claims that Kerif suffers from 5-alpha reductase deficiency, a genital disease found only in men.
Babies born with this disorder appear to have genitalia that can be mistaken for a vaginal pouch. Yet, once puberty occurs, the child begins to exhibit masculine qualities such as body hair growth, increased muscle mass, lack of breast tissue, and later, lack of menstrual activity.
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